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Some cancer patients are at higher risk from COVID-related illness or even death, but the World Health Organization’s (WHO) advice is clear: do not stay away from going to see your doctor if you need treatment or a professional diagnosis.
In an interview with Daniel Johnson, the UN health agency’s Dr André Ilbawi from WHO’s Department of Noncommunicable Diseases, explains how the coronavirus has had a “profound” impact on cancer care everywhere.
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Now aged 94, Veronica Phillips asks herself why, and how, she survived the Holocaust whilst some six million other Jews did not.
The appalling treatment she endured, designed to kill Jews and other groups systematically targeted under the Nazi regime, caused her to suffer eight miscarriages.This post was originally published on Radio Free.
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Sarah Kendzior and Andrea Chalupa are experts on authoritarian states who warned America about election hacking years before 2016. Here, they take a deep dive on the news, skipping outrage to deliver analysis, history, context, and sharp insight on global affairs.
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- Latest LaNiña report suggests warmer, wetter months to come – WMO
- 2.5 billion people in almost 130 countries lack access to COVID vaccine
- Myanmar: UN country office expresses strong concern at use of force against protesters
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The work of the UN and its partners never stops against human traffickers in West and Central Africa, who force people to risk their lives on dangerous journeys across the Sahara Desert and Mediterranean Sea. In this interview, UNHCR Special Envoy Vincent Cochetel tells UN News’s Daniel Johnson about the many ways the agency helps vulnerable people in the Sahel.
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The post Eat the Airwaves! Podcast 02/06/21 appeared first on KODX 96.9 FM – Seattle.
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In a show jam-packed with great information and provocative discussion, Ralph welcomes constitutional scholar, Bruce Fein, to update us on impeachment, professor and author, Sinan Antoon, to decry the pardons given to American mercenaries convicted of murder in Iraq, and attorney John Dacey, who is campaigning to abolish the private prison industry.
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- UN agencies in plea for access to help stranded people in Ethiopia’s Tigray
- COVID-19 ‘to contribute to two million additional cases’ of FGM over 10 years
- In Somalia, risks of Desert Locust crop damage remain ‘high and alarming’
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- Warlord found guilty of crimes against humanity in northern Uganda – ICC
- IFRC launches plan to help vaccinate 500 million against COVID-19
- Iran: rights experts alarmed over execution of Baloch minority prisoners
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Vered Kater knew from childhood that she would become a nurse. Not due to any special knowledge of the profession, but a desire to provide to others the type of intense care that delivered her from the Holocaust.
She speaks to Natalie Hutchison for this edition of In Their Words: Surviving the Holocaust. Finding hope from her home in Jerusalem, with a message of warning on discrimination that goes unchallenged.
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- Urgent steps needed to alleviate suffering in Ethiopia’s Tigray region: Guterres
- Key workers in 145 countries to receive COVID vaccines
- Navalny prison sentence prompts ‘dismay’ from UN rights office
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Sarah Kendzior and Andrea Chalupa are experts on authoritarian states who warned America about election hacking years before 2016. Here, they take a deep dive on the news, skipping outrage to deliver analysis, history, context, and sharp insight on global affairs.
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- Impact of COVID-19 on cancer care globally has been ‘profound’, warns WHO
- Call for ‘crimes against humanity’ probe in DR Congo
- DPR Korea: Prison system a place of ongoing grave abuses, warns Bachelet
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- Military control ‘serious blow’ to democratic reforms in Myanmar: UN chief
- Libya vote offers renewal and reconciliation chance, says veteran UN negotiator
- Nicaragua: rights expert urges to improve protection of environmental defenders
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The post Eat the Airwaves! Podcast 01/30/21 appeared first on KODX 96.9 FM – Seattle.
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Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated 76 years ago this week, and to mark Holocaust remembrance day in late January, the corridors of UN Headquarters are normally filled with the stories of survivors who come to bear witness.
But this year, the annual commemoration programme was held online for the first time ever, due to COVID-19, under the theme “Facing the Aftermath: Recovery and Reconstitution after the Holocaust”.
For this latest edition of our Lid is On podcast, Ana Carmo brings you some of those voices of survival, along with the poignant contribution of German leader, Angela Merkel, and leading UN officials, speaking out against intolerance and racism, with neo-Nazism seemingly on the rise.
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India has embarked on one of the largest COVID-19 vaccination campaigns in the world, with more than 2,600 vaccinators and nearly half a million team members trained.
That’s according to Dr. Roderico H. Ofrin, Representative of the World Health Organization (WHO) in India, which is one of the main UN agencies supporting the government-led drive.
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The equivalent of 255 million full-time jobs were lost in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic and economic recovery next year is likely to be slow – but it’s not all bad news, according to the International Labour Organization (ILO).
In an interview with UN News’s Daniel Johnson, ILO’s Dorothea Schmidt-Klau maintains there is hope that the crisis will lead to new opportunities in the green economy, which is where young jobseekers in particular, should seek work.
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- .UNICEF chief’s appeal for access to children caught up in Ethiopia’s Tigray
- Tens of thousands in northwest Syria lose shelters after floods
- ‘Biggest’ climate change poll reveals most people believe it is a ‘global emergency’
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- COVID pandemic impact ‘four times worse’ on jobs than 2008 financial crisis
- Sri Lanka: ‘Forced’ cremation of COVID victims’ bodies must stop
- Syrian crisis is still killing children in 2021, constitutional talks resume in Geneva
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The post Eat the Airwaves! Podcast 01/23/21 appeared first on KODX 96.9 FM – Seattle.
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Ralph welcomes back Professor Adolph Reed to talk about whether Biden’s racially and gender diverse cabinet will actually translate into a real shift of power to the people or follow the same old corporatist playbook. And Constitutional scholar, Bruce Fein, returns to argue for a full impeachment and conviction of Donald Trump no matter how long it takes.
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